I agree with the Mum. Im not sure exactly what this child did but im sure its been ongoing and this mum has had enough.

Well, each to their own but why share it on social media? People need to learn to stop over sharing it!

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  • • sunflower replied
    • 23 Aug 2020 , 3:49 pm

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  Spot on.

I think it would be rather effective way of showing her how life could be. Maybe not share it with everyone though

I don’t disagree with what she did with her child – but I do disagree with putting it out there on social media.

Ooh, we all do the best we can but… my issue is with this being shared on social media in the first place. It’s out there forever (even if deleted) and you can’t take it back. Not necessary to share on such a public forum.

The danger by this tough way of disciplining is that we drive our teenagers further away from us instead of building a good relationship with elements of openness and trust. This will probably not help.

Ok sounds like she went too far. You shouldn’t buy your children everything anyway or they will assume everything is easy for them.

I believe she went too far but she doesn’t give her reason for doing what she did. No matter what my kids did, I wouldn’t make them wear their school clothes on a weekend. She may be creating more problems than she realises with this punishment

She went too far, most definitely, this is abuse.

there has to be more to this story. This seems very extreme to come out of nowhere because her daughter is ungrateful.

Wow she must have done something seriously extreme to get this kind of punishment. Poor kid

This type of ‘punishment’ doesn’t seem to work at making teenager behaviour improve.

We are finding that treating our teenagers with respect, talking openly, having discussions, enabling input and being supportive through these challenging years is working so much better.
We still have lots of bumps. But we are all learning with each of them.
I like to think that we are there to support our kids before they go out into the world. We help to prepare them to be the best that they can.
Kindness seems to have a better outcome than a dictatorship.

This is just awful. Parents are not Gods.
I hope this mum is prepared for some tough love when she is old and needs to be cared for.

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  • • Annie replied
    • 07 Apr 2019 , 8:18 pm

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  Oh my goodness, that poor Mum and daughter. My biggest concern would be – what exactly will the teenager learn? Nothing kind, perhaps nothing that you would ever want a young woman to know and replicate.

It is 100 percent emotion abuse, how would you feel if your husband or partner did this to you, because you did something he didn’t like, how about instead of power tripping over your child, you help her. Talk to her, understand what it is that maybe triggering her. This type of isolation can lead to far worse for this young lady then you can ever imagine. Wake up to yourself.

I think that this is probably going a bit too far. Fair enough for trying to teach her a lesson but it needs to still preserve her dignity.

You’re the one that raising her Mumma bear. Help her to form new, better habits instead of humiliating her. (Like I totally get the frustration, my kids are pigs, but that’s where pocket money and incentives to keep tidier come into play.)

I don’t quite understand what the daughter did to provoke a punishment.

Good on her kids these days don’t appreciate parents hard work and complain about everything one months is not bad I thought the punishment was going to last longer

I can 100% understand the sentiment behind the punishments, teaching kids to appreciate what they have is tricky. And we don’t know what circumstances have pushed this mum to these extremes. I hope they work

So what did her daughter do wrong?